In a continuing effort to provide high-quality products, Autodesk has released the AutoCAD Map 3D 2016 Service Pack 2. The Readme contains the latest information regarding the installation and use of this update. It is strongly recommended that you read this entire document before you apply the update to your product. For your reference, you should save the Readme to your hard drive or print a copy.

June 05, 2014

Customers using Ordnance Survey MasterMap Topography Layer can now access information on the heights of almost 20 million buildings across Great Britain with the alpha release of OS building height attributes (www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk) Released on 17 March, OS MasterMap Topography Layer – Building Height Attribute is a product enhancement to OS MasterMap Topography Layer, and available to licence holders at no additional cost.

If you are one of the lucky customers who can now access this very useful dataset then here you will find how to use it in AutoCAD Map3D/C3D and Autodesk Infraworks environments.

First of all the OS MasterMap Topography Layer – Building Height Attribute comes as .cvs file and it is not joint to the topography so in order to reuse it with Autodesk products it is necessary to manipulate first the .csv file then you need to join it to the topography.

Step 1 - Managing the CSV data

The Building Height Attribute .csv contains the attribute OS_TOPO_TOID, which is the TOID from Topography Layer. This TOID is the attribute that is used to join the data to your Topography Layer data.

TOIDs are stored in GML as a character string, with the prefix ‘osgb’, and can comprise of either a 13-digit number or a 16-digit number after ‘osgb’ (for example, osgb1000042992516).

The first step is to open .csv, removes ‘osgb’ and adds three leading zeroes to 13-digit TOIDs and save as .xlsx

e.g. osgb1000042992516 becomes 0001000042992516

Step 2 - Managing OS Mastermap Topography Layer

To make the TOIDs joining process simpler it is reccomend you filter the Building poligons in the OS Mastermap Topography Layer and you save it as sdf file.

August 14, 2013

My colleague Marion Landry has put together a nice set of videos for using Civil View and also some clarification over the suite workflows that are included if you have installed the Infrastructure Design Suite with Civil 3D and 3ds Max Design

May 14, 2013

aka as the BIM Coordinator released on our Labs site, we have had a good interest in making this available on our newer releases.

So for both 2013 and 2014 releases this tool is now available on www.autodesk.com/subscription under the productivity tools for AutoCAD Civil 3D.

There are two installers, one to be installed on Civil 3D which runs from the toolbox and a second that installs to run on Revit (any version)

The tool exports an xml file from Civil 3D with coordinates and z level/elevation, rotation and units.

From within Revit you select the same two reference points on your building/structure and it creates a ‘Shared Coordinate System’ for your location and can orientate the view to suit and most importantly export the building/structure correctly to be used in AutoCAD platforms, Navisworks etc.